(October 1, 2013 at 2:16 pm)John V Wrote: If you told me a neighbor of yours was a nice and kind man then proceeded to tell me he was a judge who routinely handed out punishment to criminals, I wouldn't see a contradiction. How come you cannot see that with my god?
You always do this, you keep setting up comparisons that are invalid. Judges are appointed, god just assumes the right to govern us without our consent. That's tyranny, and we're under no obligation to find the cruel whims of a tyrant to be "punishment," because there's no guarantee that they're just. I'd submit to you that the whims of your god are not just, and thus do not fit in with any real criteria of punishment, because being born is not a wrongdoing.
The real comparison would go like this: if you told me your neighbor was nice and kind, and then proceeded to tell me he had appointed himself as an "arbiter of morality" and kidnapped anyone who did something he disapproved of, locked them in his basement and tortured them forever, would you see the contradiction?
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